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The sheer scale of humanitarian suffering over-stretched OCHA as well as responders across the humanitarian community.
While working in five level-three emergencies in the Central African Republic, Iraq, South Sudan, Syria, and Yemen as well as in two sudden onset natural disasters in Nepal and...

With a “triple peril” of environmental degradation, poverty and insecurity facing the Sahel, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said during a visit to Mauritania that improving the situation in the region is a top priority for the United Nations.
“You know my dedication to the Sahel,”...

The 2014 UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Humanitarian Affairs Segment opens today (23 June) at UN Headquarters in New York.
The three day annual meeting is a unique platform for Member States, UN agencies, humanitarian and development partners, the private sector and affected communities to...

The UN and its humanitarian partners have revised their global humanitarian plans for 2013, and are now appealing for nearly US$13 billion to provide assistance to tens of millions of people in 24 countries. This is the largest annual amount requested in the history of Consolidated Humanitarian Appeals....